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Book on Resistance Literature Released

Iran Daily: Ziaodin Torabi has recently compiled a new volume on the resistance literature in the Middle East and the Europe. The book has been published by the Sacred Defense Research Center.

According to IBNA, the three chapters of Resistance Literature in the World consider the socio-political conditions of the countries in the Middle East and Europe and examine the resistance literature practiced in the lands.

Besides, the works of fiction, drama and poetries that have been produced in the countries are considered in the volume.
The book argued that resistance literature can be categorized into three kinds: religious, national and humanitarian with many overlaps.
The best works by the literati in countries like Egypt, Algeria and Palestine are mustered in the book and are analyzed in details in the first part of the book.

‘Les Misérables’ by Victor Hugo is introduced in the second part as one of the best novels in resistance literature which was written as an objection to social miseries in France in the 19th century.
Works by German, Spanish and French writers and poets are also assessed in the book.

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Tazieh veterans honored

Tehran Times: Five veterans of Iran’s tazieh (passion play) were honored during a ceremony held at Tehran’s Imam Ali (AS) Religious Arts Museum on Thursday.

Taqi Azizi, Rajabali Moeinian, Reza Lankarani, Morteza Saffarian and Rahmat Eskandari were honored at the ceremony for their lifetime efforts in promoting the art of passion play in Iran and several other countries.

The veterans, aged over 70, have been performing tazieh since their childhood and their children are now among the famous actors of tazieh, Persian news agencies reported on Friday.

Organized by Art and Cultural Organization of Tehran Municipality and the Society for Iranian Tazieh, several speeches were also made on the importance of religious art at the ceremony.

The Iranian passion play tazieh recounts religious events, historical and mythical stories and folk tales. Each performance has the four components of poetry, music, song and motion.

Performers are always male, and female roles are played by men, most of whom are amateurs, who make their living through other means but perform for spiritual rewards.

Tazieh was registered on UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in November 2010.

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Fathollah Mojtabaii Award goes to dissertation on Masnavi

Tehran Times: A dissertation on Masnavi stories won the first Fathollah Mojtabaii Award during a ceremony on Tuesday at Tehran’s Book City cultural center.

Samira Bameshki from the University of Ferdowsi was the first winner of this award for her dissertation “The Functions of the Narratee in the Masnavi”.

Fathollah Mojatabaii established the award for theses and dissertations in the field of Persian language and literature, religion and mysticism.

The ceremony was attended by several officials and literati Fathollah Mojatabaii, Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, Zia Movahhed, Hossein Masumi Hamedani and Seyyed Mahmud Doaee.

Bameshki defended her dissertation in summer 2009 at the University of Ferdowsi in Mashhad. Her advisor was Mohammad-Taqi; Purnamdarian and Abolqasem Qavam are the dissertation’s readers.

At the ceremony, Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature Director Haddad-Adel extolled Mojtabaii over bestowing the award from his own funds which boosts research in literature and humanities.

Afterward, jury members Zia Movahhed and Hossein Masumi mentioned some characteristics of Bameshki’s thesis and its impact on the comparative literature researches.

“I hope that the award would be a candle that lights more candles in the realm of literary and cultural research,” Mojtabaii mentioned during the event.

Bameshki went on stage in tears of joy with her little child, receiving loud, sustained applause from the participants.

In addition to the award, her dissertation will be published as an academic book by Hermes Publications.

Bameshki, 30, got her doctorate degree from the University of Ferdowsi in 2009 and she is now a professor at the university

She described her dissertation as “an analysis of the influence of the narratee’s predilections and responses on Masnavi’s plot and to examine the other functions of narratees in Masnavi.”

Mojtabaii, 84, has got his doctorate in oriental philosophy from Harvard University forty years ago. He is now a permanent member of the Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature. He has written, translated and corrected over 200 books, articles, poetry and criticism in Persian and English.

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